Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-23
TRADE AND LABOR NOTES

A NEW axe factory has been erected at
McKeesport, Pa.
THERE are 8, i05.42 cubic inches in bushel
Of coal of 80 pounds.
THERE are fully five million tons of coal
used III New York City.
THE painters in their National convention
agreed not to restrict the number of ap-
prentices.
Prison shoes will continue to be made
in the New York prisons by about one thou
sand convicts.
CHEAP labor is gradually disappearing
from the manufacturing and mining local
tiles Of the south.
THE stove-makers have an exceptionally
prosperous year before them, but compe-
tition is very active.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa, alone furnishes
one-tenth of the bituminous coal production
Of the United States.
THE coopers throughout New York State
and the West have been unable for years
to better themselves much in the matter Of
wages.
THE Iowa Gas and Coal Company syndi-
cate have raised sufficient capital TO pro-
ceed in the development of their 5000 acre
tract Of land near Independence, No.
THE Machinery Constructors Union Of
North America, which was the first organi-
zation to secure a National trades district
charter in the Knights of Labor, has now
membership of 10000.
ONE design of electrical motor has already
been introduced into one hundred and TWEEN
| ty different branches of industry. The de-
mand for electrical appliances is so great
that number Of works are to be built this
winter.
GLASS factories are projected at Chatta-
| nooga and Knoxville, Tenn. Birmin CHAM,
| Ala, and Fort Scott. Over one hundred
foundries have been established this year
west of the Mississippi, most of them by
men from the East.
THE Observation-Disclosures are barely able to
keepup with the rush. Nearly all works
have orders for engines to weigh from forty
TO sixty tons. Southern roads are extensive
purchasers. New England roads are buy
ing engines of special construction with "a
| view to speed.
IL every Southern State agricultural and
mechanical schools have been established
| Louisiana has twenty-one industrial schools
IN which 1926 boys are instructed in me
chanical branches. There is q growing de-
sire among the boys of the South to learn
mechanical trades.
| busiest. Many building projects in some
Western cities have been postponed until
next year. Should wages and material ad-
vance in price the new work will be still
longer delayed, and only necessary work be
undertaken. A drop of about twenty-five
cents per day will be insisted on in the
building trades this winter.
THE painters and decorators are gaining
in strength. Wages have been hello at the
advances made early in the spring and work
is abundant. The decorative art is being
developed by home talent, and the work Of
/ European decorators is in many respects
excelled. American talent shows more
originality and a keener perception as TO
beautiful combinations.
THE Mary Pratt mine, near Birmingham,
Ala, is run with convicts. The mine is 204
feet deep. There are altogether $50 convicts
working here, nearly all of them below the
surface. The men are divided into gangs,
each of which is overlooked by o foreman,
who is a convict These men daily mine /, 900
tons of coal, which is fair days work In
deed, their work compares very favorably
with the work of the free laborers at other
mines of Alabama, yet the State receives
only thirty cents per day for each man, and
the same is paid for the worst as for the best
laborer."